Hermann Hesse





Hermann Hesse

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born
June 02, 1877 in Calw, Württemberg, Germany

died
August 09, 1962

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Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.

Hesse was born in the Black Forest town of Calw to a Christian missionary family. Both of his parents served with a Basel Mission to India, where Hesse's mother Marie Gundert was born in 1842. Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, was born in 1847 in Estonia, the son of a doctor. The Hesse family had lived in Calw since 1873, where they operated a missionary publishing house under the direction of Hesse's grandfather, Hermann Gundert.

Hesse spent his first year...more


Average rating: 3.90 · 174,837 ratings · 7,270 reviews · 331 distinct works
Siddhartha
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 104,956 ratings — published 1922 — 384 editions
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Steppenwolf
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 24,244 ratings — published 1927 — 157 editions
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Demian
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 14,406 ratings — published 1959 — 118 editions
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Narcissus and Goldmund
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 9,838 ratings — published 1930 — 99 editions
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,687 ratings — published 1943 — 79 editions
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Beneath the Wheel: A Novel
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 3,168 ratings — published 1958 — 53 editions
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The Journey to the East: A ...
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,627 ratings — published 1932 — 39 editions
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann ...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,193 ratings — published 1955 — 25 editions
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Peter Camenzind
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,318 ratings — published 1904 — 41 editions
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Gertrude
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,243 ratings — published 1910 — 28 editions
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More books by Hermann Hesse…
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
Hermann Hesse, Demian

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
Hermann Hesse

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
Hermann Hesse

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Group book read - February 2012

Vishy has picked 10 books from to-read lists of all members. If you want to suggest other books, feel free to add. Voting ends at 12AM Saturday, the 28th of Jan, and we will read the book with the maximum votes.

Next meetup is on the 26th of February, so we will have around a month to finish reading.

 
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